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Uncle Jay Explains the News - June 1, 2008
Popular Videos – Liberal. Conservative. These have to be the two most annoying words in the news. What do these words mean? But more importantly, why are words in the news so hard to spell? Uncle Jay explains the left and right of it.
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Voted for on June 02, 2008 03:11pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 125 votes / 8 sinks
Clinton easily wins Puerto Rico, NBC projects
Politics – Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton won Puerto Rico's Democratic presidential primary by a substantial margin Sunday, NBC News projected. But Clinton's newly defiant campaign against her own party leaders may have been blunted by low turnout in the island territory.
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Voted for on June 02, 2008 03:11pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 2 votes / No sinks
The Homeless People of Heathrow Airport
Travel – Is that a stranded traveler sleeping on the couch in a Heathrow airport terminal? Nay, that's Michael, one of about a hundred homeless people who call the London airport home. Some of them have suitcases in order to better "blend in" with the real travelers.
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(neatorama.com)
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Voted for on June 01, 2008 04:17pm
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Stay Out of Our Packets or We'll Sue
Gadgets & Tech – Bell Canada may have to pay for violating net neutrality. A March 29 class action filing says Bell should reimburse its Sympatico DSL subscribers 80 percent of monthly subscriptions and $2,100 per susbscriber for traffic shaping, false advertising and privacy violations.
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(gigaom.com)
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Voted for on May 31, 2008 06:53pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 67 votes / No sinks
Google Outed As Anonymous Ebay Critic
Gadgets & Tech – Ebay Australia currently allows merchants to accept credit cards, but from June 17 they want to allow only PayPal or COD. When the Australian Consumer Commission asked for public comments on the proposal a lot of of people responded. But an anonymous 38 pg doc highly critical of Ebay 's move leading to speculation on who the author might be.
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(techcrunch.com)
Voted for on May 31, 2008 04:19pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 1 vote / No sinks
Papyrophobic but love sticky notes? Try Postica
Pets – Postica has to be one of the more single-serving Web apps I've seen in a long time. The service lets you create a slew of tiny sticky notes that can be maneuvered around the confines of your browser with ajaxian flair.
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(webware.com)
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Voted for on May 31, 2008 01:33am
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Border Security to Become Copyright Police?
Gadgets & Tech – In what may be the most baffling and cumbersome move of all, the US, Canada, UK, and other EU nations are working behind closed doors on a new trade agreement which could turn border agents into the copyright police.
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(popsci.com)
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Voted for on May 30, 2008 02:55pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 5 votes / No sinks
What Google Looks For in Potential Acquisitions
Gadgets & Tech – Today I attended the XMediaLab event in Wellington New Zealand. Tom Duterme, who is in the New Business Development group at Google in Mountain View, was here talking about innovation. Tom's job is to travel around the world looking for acquisitions for Google, so it was interesting to hear what things he looks for in startups.
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(readwriteweb.com)
Voted for on May 30, 2008 01:31am
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This story has mostly positive ratings. 149 votes / 4 sinks
Quomolangma [EVEREST] Climbed for the 1st Time
Travel – 55 Years since Sherpa Tenzing and Edmund Hillary "conquered" Everest, news which arrived in the UK on 2nd June, the morning of Queens Elizabeth II's Coronation, when the British Empire still ruled!
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Voted for on May 29, 2008 08:07pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 1 vote / No sinks
The New New Browser Wars
Gadgets & Tech – In thinking about the desktop/web hybrid platforms that have launched or are about to be launched, I've decided that even if last year they were overhyped, this year we're going to see real adoption and applications. But that presents an interesting problem for developers and eventually, for users.
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(gigaom.com)
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Voted for on May 29, 2008 07:06pm
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Today in Patent Trolling: VueStar
Gadgets & Tech – The internet has a few kinds of links, but the most common are text and image links. For example, I can link this image of VueStar's logo: To a website featuring stuff on a cat (luckily I'm in a good mood or you guys would have been in for a surprise)
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(techcrunch.com)
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Voted for on May 29, 2008 01:38pm
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GlamMedia launches platform for indie & mainstream tv
Gadgets & Tech – Female-oriented lifestyle and fashion network Glam Media is announcing today their video effort's official launch. GlamTV is to be a video distribution as well as advertising platform set to be incorporated throughout the network of all the 500 member blogs and content destinations.
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(mashable.com)
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Voted for on May 29, 2008 02:33am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 2 votes / No sinks
Gigya Socialize Goes Up Against Google Friend Connect
Gadgets & Tech – Distributing friend connections across the web has been quite a hot topic in the Web 2.0 community as of late. MySpace, Facebook, and Google have all come out with their own initiatives for sharing social graph data with any number of websites
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(techcrunch.com)
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Voted for on May 28, 2008 08:36pm
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Exclusive: Dell Mini Inspiron, Their First Mini Laptop
Gadgets & Tech – I bumped into Michael Dell at All Things D after his interview, and he was nice enough to show me this laptop that he was carrying that he said no one's seen before. It's a small form factor notebook, just like the Asus EEE and the HP 2133.
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(gizmodo.com)
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Voted for on May 28, 2008 06:13pm
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Making the Web Searchable: The Story of SearchMonkey
Gadgets & Tech – Last week at the SemTech 2008 Conference that took place in San Jose, Yahoo! Researcher Peter Mika spoke in detail about the company's new SearchMonkey search platform initiative. Mika talked broadly about his work looking at metadata on the web, and how that led to the birth of SearchMonkey. This post is based on notes from that talk.
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(readwriteweb.com)
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Voted for on May 28, 2008 12:17am
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